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rOURTZZW MESPOXD (OREGOIT) MAIL TRXBURB Thursday. July 14. 113 Diminniates at COnDDciresft Glris School dei WIM Kiioft IUI nl lntn' Maximum Security Building Damaged; Escape Prevented - Salem U.K Eleven fir Is at Hillcrest school for girls, appar ently incensed at being crowded -into a room intended only for 10, tore up the interior of the maximum security building at the institution and escaped from their cells last night, but were unable to escape from the school grounds. The rioting started after two other girls had fled from the school during the outside recrea tion period. The two girls were . still missing today. - . The 11 girls who broke out of the maximum security build ing were brought under control by state police, a Marion county deputy sheriff and male employ ees of the school. They-were brought to the Marion county jail , in downtown Salem for overnight housing. The 11 girls used their steel beds as battering rams to smash their way through the plaster- over-tile brick walls; They broke into other rooms, hurled storeroom, supplies around, poked holes through door win dows leading outside and de stroyed furniture. '- " But none of them escaped from the building. ' Officers fought their, way through hurled mattresses and other objects thrown by the girls before subduing them.- The girls were escorted handcuffed, two at a time, from the maxi- mum security building to the of ' fice of Superintendent Marjorie McBride. - Board of Chamber Supports KBE5-IV Move Application The board of directors of the y Jackson : County - Chamber of Commerce adopted a number f of resolutions, and took action i on several chamber matters at w a breakfast meeting today. The board: 1. Unanimously vo . ted to write Congressman Har ' ris Ellsworth in support of the ; application of KBES-TV to move its transmitter from Blackwell Hill to Soda mountain, to provide a better picture and better ser vice to viewers. The chamber i -also;, will 'write the federal com V munications commission in the J same regard.. Everett Faber of ; the station explained the need, and the fact that action on the i application is being held up by - the FCC A hearing on the mat '. ter may be held soon. ' .Protest Highway 2. Unanimously adopted res- olution protesting to the state " highway commission the "dis- graceful" condition of the Crat ' er Lake highway, and asking in strong terms for reconstruction of the "hazardous" flounce rock . section before the tourist season of 1956; the immediate comple tion of a survey for the entire route, and higher maintenance standards for the highway be tween Trail and Crater Lake na tional park. 3. Unanimously adopted am endments to the chamber by- laws calling for earlier board . and officer elections to permit new chamber officials to get fa miliar with their problems' be- ' fore taking office on the first of the year. ' 4 ; To Print Brochure 4. Voted to print 9,000 copies of a new "facts and ..figures" brochure, which gives many de tails of Jackson county common ly requested by those seeking in formation. ' 5. Approved the appointment of Glenn Jackson as a chamber . representative on the bureau of ; land management advisory com- : mittee for the -Medford district, r 6. Heard a report on Transoc i ean airlines' plan for a chamber t tour to Hawaii early in Sept ember, which will cost $274 plus - tax per seat Three free seats I will be, provided the chamber, ana uiese trips can be provided as prizes in a forthcoming cham ber membership campaign. The flight to the islands will leave from the Medford airport. IOOF Installation Set In Medford Tuesday ,, Tom Banks, Phoenix, will be installed as noble grand at a meeting of Medford Lodge, IOOF at the lodge hall on Sixth st. at 8 p.m. July 19. Other officers to be installed are E. B. McNew, vice-grand; John Daniel, secre tary, and Charles Swingle, trea surer. Appointive . officers will be named and installed at the I same time. Harry Smith, district deputy grand, master, will of ficiate. - : -- - - - - '- Refrshments will follow the ceremony arid all Oddfellows, local or visiting, are invited. A gallon of water is formed for each gallon of burned gaso line. . Ground Observers Mark Third Anniversary; Mayor Proclaims Gratitude to Many Volunteers Today is "Operation Sky watch" day. "Operation Skywatch" is the code name given to the Ground Observer's. Corps. Today is the third anniversary of this na tion-wide civilian defense organ ization. Mayor Earl Miller, In a pro clamation, set it aside because "we owe a lasting debt of grati tude to this group of citizens. Volunteers maintain a 24-hour, seven day a week vigil scanning the skies for signs of aircraft that "may have our cities, our homes, ourselves as targets," he said. Expansion Told The third anniversary of the GOC marks an expansion of the program, the growth of active volunteers from 118,522 in 1952 to 317,010 in 1955, and the ac quiring of new capabilities. Medford' s Ground Obesrver station, located on the corner of Jackson st and McAndrews rd., is but one part of the air de fense pattern that plans to have Bridges' Lawyers To Question Pair About Testimony San Francisco U.R) Two of the government's star wit nesses will be grilled today by attorneys for . Harry Bridges, West Coast labor leader faced for the fourth time with losing his U. S. citizenship. The defense said it would re call John Schomaker and David I. Saunders, former Communist party waterfront organizers who testified that they knew Bridges as a Communist False Claim Charged Bridges, 54-year-old president of the International Longshore men's and Warehousemen's un ion, is charged with falsely de nying ever having been affiliated with the Communist party when he was granted U.S. citizenship. TheAustralian-born labor lead er has steadfastly denied any af filiation with the Communists throughout four government at tempts to have him deported. Bridges objected -vehemently yesterday to .prosecution at tempts to show discrepancies be tween testimony given at early trials and that presented at the current one. At one point the longshore leader erupted at Asst. . U. S. Atty. Lynn Gillard, who read from Bridges' testimony in his 1949 and 1939 trials as he ques tioned Bridges about his ties with the Marine Workers Indus trial union. Seems Unfair "Maybe this procedure is le gal," Bridges said hotly. "It's awfully unfair it seems to me . . . I don't even know if he's reading it correctly." Federal Judge Louis E. God man directed that Gillard show Bridges the previous testimony and the longshore, chief com plained that it was only part of his answer at the time. : Bridges attributed some of the inconsistencies to the passage of years. When. Bridges stepped down after two and one half days of testimony, the defense called Matthew J. Meehan, 59, Interna tional representative for the ILWU for Oregon and a longtime friend of Bridges. Meehan testified that as far as he knew, Bridges had never been a - Communist,, nor had he ever expressed sympathy for the Communists nor advocated the violent overthrow of the Ameri can government. - TID Wafer Scarce; Careful Use Asked Talent Water in the Emi grant and Hyatt lake reservoirs, supplying the Talent Irrigation district, is below levels of recent years, Secretary-Manager. Rob ert Kent has reported. However, Kent added, if k careful useage continues, the district may- be able to supply all essential water for the current season. On July 11,' Hyatt reservoir, capacity of 16,000 acre feet, con tained 7,730 acre feet Emigrant lake, on July 7, held 3,684 acre feet Capacity is 8.000. . Lack of snowfall at upper ele vations last winter has account ed for the shortage, according to Kent Neither reservoir filled to capacity at any time this year. -Kent expressed the district's appreciation to water users for their excellent cooperation in conserving water thus far... over a million aircraft spotters and air defense filter center vol unteers manning the GOC by 1956. Sgt B. B. Moore, U. S. Air Force man in charge of the local observation operation, reported that the Medford post, one of 24 in Jackson county, averages Norwegian Tells Of Part in Dope Smuggling Plot San Francisco (U.R) A teenage Norwegian sailor told yesterday how he got mixed up in a bizarre plot to smuggle $3,000,000 worth of heroin from Hong Kong to San Francisco. The seaman, Truls Halversen, 17, decided in mid-voyage not to take, part in "such dirty things" and on the advice of a Brooklyn minister, Leif Aagard, turned the naroctics over to the master of his ship, The Fernhill. First Witness Halvorsen was the first wit ness in the opening of the nar cotics conspiracy trial of Frank Lew, 57-year-old Chinese accused of being the San Francisco con tactman for the narcotics ring. Lew was caught last May in a trap set by U. S. Customs agents and Halvorsen. He was seized while accepting a dummy pack age from the Norwegian youth. : Halvorsen said he was lured into the plot in Hong Kong by a Chinese tailor who' came aboard to sell him a suit When Halvor sen said he did not have enough money, the tailor then "asked me if I wanted to make some easy money .smuggling opium into the United States." "I didn't say no,' Halvorsen replied. He said he was promised $1,200 if he would follow orders. Instructions Given . Halvorsen. said the tailor led him to four Chinese, who gave him five pounds of heroin in 10 small sacks and told him how to smuggle it off the ship. They also took his picture and gave him half a coupon which he was to match with the "con signee" in San Francisco. Once at sea, Halvorsen began to worry about what he had got-' ten into. He wrote his minister in Brooklyn a letter which said in part: "I cursed myself for having wanted to take part in such dirty things." Halvorsen said the minister wired back, instructing him to turn the narcotics over to the ship's i' master, which he did. When the ship docked, Halvor sen arranged with American au thorities to trap Lew. Salem (U.PJ Dr. Fred L. Hut- ton, recent graduate of Oklaho ma A. and ' M. College, has joined the veterinary staff of the Oregon Department of Agricul ture. a BUY THE NEW on G E Water Heater AUTOMATIC ELECTRIC Wash a Load of Clothes EVERY HOUR -All Day Long- ONLY $5.00 A MONTH. NOTHING DOWN - HOME APPLIANCE IIS EAST MAIN Authorized Dealer iheiaiQelectiic Water Heaters about 2,000 reports a month. The reports are sent on a "cluster line" telephone system that is directly connected with the irf elected clerk, defense center in Fortlana. Mrs. Irene Timm, wife of the Tou Velle state park caretaker, alone reported 10,000 planes last year, Sergeant Moore added. 100 Units . Sergeant Moore's area, which covers Jackson, Josephine and parts of -Siskiyou and Douglas counties, contains more than 100 different twits. Besides the 24 GOC posts here there are 50 more GOC posts that are part time, 14 state forest patrol look outs, 10 federal forest lookouts, and mobile units of the Southern Oregon Conservation and Tree Farm association. According to Mrs. Lucille Brock,' chief Medford GOC ob server, there axe more than 225 volunteers in the Medford post. They are mill workers, weather men, women with babies, grand mothers, businessmen, office wo men and people from every walk of life, Mrs. Brock said. She pointed out that the post has 25 active boys and girls, some who have watched from the "very first." Medford's post has been in use for about a year and a half. .. Don't Sense Need Mrs. -Brock added the quota tion, "it's not that they're less patriotic, they just don't sense the need," in giving her views on people who have spare time but don't use it as civil defense observers. .. - She expressed the post's need for people who could help out at night on a two-hour shift. The immediate need is be tween midnight and 6 a.m., al though help "at any time" would be appreciated. Volunteers wish ing to donate time to the pro gram may do so by calling Mrs. Brock at . 2-8217, , or Sergeant Moore at 2-9704. Ed Branchfield Is Elected Chairman Of School Board Edward w. Branchfield was elected chairman of the Medford school board at a meeting Tues day night Other officers include Otto Ewaldsen vice-chairman, and Mrs. Rebecca Jensen was re-j The board awarded a contract to Hughes and Dodd company of Medford for sidewalk, curbs and guttering along Holmes ave. and on a 276 feet extension of Alta st Hughes and Dodd s bid was 1283.70. A bid of $2,097 by Virgil O. Anderson, of Medford was low and the board awarded the con tract for base material and gran ite surfacing on Alta st. exten sion and portions of Holmes ave. The board accepted resigna tions from Mary Anderson, Anna Lou Salladay, Niles B. Smith, William Potts and Earl Rogers, and elected Curtis Kinney to teach in the high school com mercial department School Superintendent E. H Hedrick was authorized to pre pare a letter for Medford city council and Medford Planning commission recommending that Jefferson school site south of Stewart ave. and streets owned by the district be brought into the city. Hedrick said annexation of the site would provide less ex pensive insurance rates, in addi tion to increased city services. Fabrics Class Under Way in Rogue River Rogue River- A class in op hols tery, draperies, slipcovers and bedspreads is now in ses sion in Rogue River, according to John B. Harr, Rogue River superintendent of schools. 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